Post by sistagroove on Jun 27th, 2005 at 4:22am
Greetings to all:
I really hope I can find some good answers here! Looks like a good source of information.
I'm (still) 50 (BD is end of Aug.), have straight hair just above my waist that I've been growing since I was 14. I've worn it pinned up for most of that time. It's very fine hair which is what we have in my family. I have never colored it so it is now "dark and silver," with a prominent natural "skunk stripe" up front which is my trademark.
Since my early 20s, I have noticed the gradual but constant loss of hair. Used to be able to put my hair in two braids (thin braids, but 2 anyway) and wrap them around my head.
Now there is hardly enough for one braid. In my perimenopausal state, it really has thinned to the point that I can't pin it up the way I used to. I used to comb the front of my hair backwards and fasten it with combs, then pinning the rest up in a bun, which to me looks graceful and dignified but also looks a bit "Amish". I wonder if the combs and use of hairspray has damaged the hair.
My mother went through the same thing at about my age; her hair wasn't as long as mine is now, but she ended up getting her ponytail cut off because there just wasn't enough there anymore.
I'm trying to find more creative ways to deal with the hair loss . . . like to come up with some type of hair "clothing", more than a scarf, that could be worn to either contain the hair in a kind of net, or have strings of beads or other enhancement to "augment" my shadow-of-its-former-self ponytail.
I really don't want to cut it short yet! But I may follow the advice on the homepage and cut it shorter for its health's sake. Then maybe I can regroup and figure out how I can wear it.
Losing my ability to wear my hair the way I am accustomed has been a huge blow to my sense of self.
Sorry to be so whiny on first introductions, but I hope you'll understand!
-Tracy
p.s. maybe this gives you an idea:
I really hope I can find some good answers here! Looks like a good source of information.
I'm (still) 50 (BD is end of Aug.), have straight hair just above my waist that I've been growing since I was 14. I've worn it pinned up for most of that time. It's very fine hair which is what we have in my family. I have never colored it so it is now "dark and silver," with a prominent natural "skunk stripe" up front which is my trademark.
Since my early 20s, I have noticed the gradual but constant loss of hair. Used to be able to put my hair in two braids (thin braids, but 2 anyway) and wrap them around my head.
Now there is hardly enough for one braid. In my perimenopausal state, it really has thinned to the point that I can't pin it up the way I used to. I used to comb the front of my hair backwards and fasten it with combs, then pinning the rest up in a bun, which to me looks graceful and dignified but also looks a bit "Amish". I wonder if the combs and use of hairspray has damaged the hair.
My mother went through the same thing at about my age; her hair wasn't as long as mine is now, but she ended up getting her ponytail cut off because there just wasn't enough there anymore.
I'm trying to find more creative ways to deal with the hair loss . . . like to come up with some type of hair "clothing", more than a scarf, that could be worn to either contain the hair in a kind of net, or have strings of beads or other enhancement to "augment" my shadow-of-its-former-self ponytail.
I really don't want to cut it short yet! But I may follow the advice on the homepage and cut it shorter for its health's sake. Then maybe I can regroup and figure out how I can wear it.
Losing my ability to wear my hair the way I am accustomed has been a huge blow to my sense of self.
Sorry to be so whiny on first introductions, but I hope you'll understand!
-Tracy
p.s. maybe this gives you an idea:
